• Seymour Phelps and his son-in-law, Andrew T. Servin, published The Phelps Family in America in 1899. They mistakenly concluded that William Phelps was the...
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  • William Phelps may refer to: Bill Phelps (1934–2019), Lieutenant Governor of Missouri William Phelps (colonist) (1599–1672), one of the founders of Windsor...
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  • politician William Phelps (disambiguation), many people William Phelps (colonist) (1599–1672), one of the founders of Windsor, Connecticut William Phelps (priest)...
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    Illinois. Descended from the colonist William Phelps, William J. Phelps is the father of William E. Phelps. William Joshua Phelps was born in Burlington, Connecticut...
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    operation, Phelps orthosis, and Phelps splint. Phelps, a descendant of the early New England colonist William Phelps, received his M.D. from the University...
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    of preemptive rights as the "Phelps and Gorham purchase". On July 8, 1788, at the First Treaty of Buffalo Creek, Phelps and Gorham petitioned the Senecas...
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    Phelps was born in Auburn, New York, the son of Halsey and Lucinda (née Hitchcock) Phelps. He was descended from the puritan colonist, William Phelps...
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    Buxton, North Carolina, anthropologist David Sutton Phelps Jr. organized an excavation in 1995. Phelps and his team discovered a ring in 1998, which initially...
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    Norton, Gentleman Dionis Oconor, Tradesman Thomas Phelps, Tradesman Henry Philpot, Gentleman Master William Powell, Tradesman John Prat, Tradesman Rose, Labourer...
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    Indian War took on a new significance for the British North American colonists when William Pitt the Elder decided that major military resources needed to be...
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    Indian War took on a new significance for the British North American colonists when William Pitt the Elder decided that major military resources needed to be...
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    1744 by Joseph Phelps for his son Ezekiel, when the area was still part of Simsbury. Phelps was the great-great grandson of William Phelps, one of the first...
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    Plantation became the seat of the Randolph family. In 1676 a Virginia colonist, Nathaniel Bacon, rebelled unsuccessfully against the colonial government...
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    Herbert Palmer Robert Parker Thomas Parker John Penry William Perkins Andrew Perne William Phelps George Phillips (Watertown) Matthew Poole John Preston...
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    father's alliance between the Wampanoags and the colonists after repeated violations by the latter. The colonists insisted that the 1671 peace agreement should...
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    to U.S. Senator William H. King Frank Charles Partridge (1861–1943), lawyer, diplomat, and U.S. Senator from Vermont William Lyon Phelps (1865–1945), author...
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  • Massachusetts. Married Edward Rossiter's widowed sister. Samuel Maverick William Phelps founder of both Dorchester, Massachusetts, and Windsor, Connecticut...
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    Parliament policies created an increasingly greater divide with American colonists, the Sons of Liberty organization was founded. Samuel Adams led the creation...
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  • Sheffield Phelps. Sheffield Phelps (1864–1902), delegate to the Republican National Convention 1900. Son of William W. Phelps. Phelps Phelps (1897–1981)...
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    William Du Bois's maternal great-great-grandfather was Tom Burghardt, a slave (born in West Africa around 1730) who was held by the Dutch colonist Conraed...
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    bicycle Sandy Osiecki, professional player Anson Greene Phelps (1781–1853), founder of Phelps, Dodge mining and copper company, and Ansonia's founder...
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  • House of Percy. The Randolph family, FFV, is descended from William Randolph, an American colonist who accumulated a vast fortune including over 20,000 acres...
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    Revolution (English Revolution of 1688), in which William and Mary acceded to the throne, German-born colonist Jacob Leisler seized Fort James in what was called...
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  • C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8 Parish 1879, p. 166. Phelps, Lancelot Ridley. "Phelps, Lancelot Ridley". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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  • common defense and moreover eliminated the main military threat that the colonists had relied upon Britain to defend them from. When two years after the...
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    habour, Jørgensen accompanied and financed by James Savignac and Samuel Phelps, with the additional help of Sir Joseph Banks, embarked for Iceland with...
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    by John Philip Kemble at Covent Garden in 1813, William Macready at Drury Lane in 1833, Samuel Phelps at Sadler's Wells in 1849, Andrew Halliday at Drury...
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    Young ordered [William W.] Phelps to buy a press for the settlement the Mormons planned to establish in the West. That summer Phelps borrowed $61 from...
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  • British fired on colonists in Lexington and Concord, inciting the American Revolutionary War. Bissell was assigned to alert American colonists the news and...
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  • legible. The Cumberland Compact was composed and signed by 256 colonists. One colonist, James Patrick of Virginia, was illiterate and marked his name...
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